Hypothesis Testing

H1:

  1. Effects of situation and process characteristics on subjective appraisals and on emotional reactions of a stressful episode:
    • 1.1) According to the objectives of the construction, subjects should perceive higher controllability and changeability in the aversive episdoes than in the loss or failure episodes
    • 1.2) In both types of stressful situations controllability and changeability should be perceived as lower over the course of the episodes, from phase 1 to phase 2, due to the stressor remaining unchanged over time.
    • 1.3) Negative valence should be similarly perceived in the two subtests (aver vs loss), but should be in the course of the (unchanged) stressful episdoes. There should be a strong difference between positive and negative outcome as described in the hypothetical end of the episode (phase 3)
    • 1.4) Concerning the theme or content of the two classes of stressful episdoes, it is to be supposed that aversive stimuluation by social agents (as presented in some episodes) produces more aggresive and less depressed emotions** than the looming loss or failure events

H2:

  1. Effects of situation and process on situation-directed behaviors:
    • 2.1) The less controllable the situations (gross and net control), the less active influence on the stressor will be exerted by the subject and,
    • 2.2) the more passivity (hesitation and resignation) will occur.

H3:

  1. Effects on representation-directed coping efforts: The lower the ambiguity of the stressful situation then
    • 3.1) the more limited the serach for information, and
    • 3.2) the more the subject will surppress information about the stressor.

H4:

  1. Evaluation-directed coping efforts: The less controllable the situation,
    • 4.1) The more the instrumental goals (of influence, substituation) are changed from more alloplastic to more autoplastic adaptation, especially when stressful effects are long-lasting; because social aversive stressors as convceived in the SCPQ episodes probably represent a stronger attack on the self-esteem of the subject, his or her coping intentions should focus more on the goal of (re)equilibration of self-esteem;
    • 4.2) the more re-evaluation is increased to change the relavance or valence of the actual situation.

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Act as a person with depression

Both types

Aversive stories only

Loss&Failure stories only

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Within Models Across Setups

Within Setup

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Between setups

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Model#1: Text-Davinci-003

Model#2: Chat

Model#3: GPT4

Conditioned on previous appraisal answers

Hypotheses Testing Results

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